Amber Heard Describes Threats She’s Received As She Has Countered Johnny Depp’s $50 Million Defamation Lawsuit: “I Would Not Wish This Situation On My Worst Enemy”

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Amber Heard described the threats she has received and the emotional trauma she has experienced as she countered Johnny Depp’s $50 million lawsuit with her own $100 million counter claim.In tearful testimony as she returned to the witness stand on Thursday, Heard said, “I just want Johnny to leave me alone.”Asked by her attorney what what has been the impact of claims that she fabricated her allegations of abuse, Heard said, “I am harassed, humiliated, threatened every single day.

Even just walking into this courtroom. sitting here in front of the world, having the worst parts of my life, things I lived through, used to humiliate me.”She recounted receiving threats from “people [who] want to kill me, and  they tell me so every single day.”“People want to put my baby in the microwave, and they tell me that,” she said.“Johnny threatened, promised, promised me that if I ever left him, that he would make me think of him every single day that I lived,” she said.Depp filed a $50 million defamation lawsuit against Heard after she published a Washington Post op ed when she wrote that she “became a public figure representing domestic abuse.” Heard filed a $100 million counter suit after Depp’s attorney, Adam Waldman.

claimed that she had make up her allegations.“I would not wish this situation on my worst enemy,” Heard told the jury.The judge has scheduled closing arguments for Friday.

The trial has stretched out for 23 days, or six weeks, and has drawn record-breaking viewership for one of the sites streaming it, Law & Crime.Depp returned to the stand on Wednesday, when he again denied Heard’s allegations and called her claims “unimaginably brutal, cruel and all false.”Much of each side’s rebuttal has been via dueling expert